War On Drugs Is An Epic Failure

Ever since President Richard Nixon launched the modern war on drugs over four decades ago it has failed to stop drug use and abuse. As a matter of fact opiate addiction is up in the U.S. and drugs like heroin are abundant and cheap. Seizure of illegal drugs by the DEA is up, indicating more of the stuff is crossing the U.S. border. The whole exercise, rumored to have been started by Nixon in part to crack down on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements of the 1960s and 70s, is an epic failure ANTIMEDIA reports: This summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) demonstrated its incompetence and exposed its archaic ideology on more than one occasion. First, in defiance of public opinion, the agency announced it would continue to classify cannabis as a Schedule I drug, meaning the plant will continue to be categorized as one of the most “dangerous” drugs in America. Then, the DEA announced it would schedule kratom’s active ingredients in the same Schedule I category, even though the increasingly popular Asian herb, like cannabis, could potentially help curb the nation’s current opiate addiction epidemic. To some Americans, these two actions demonstrate just how hopelessly out of touch the DEA [...]

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